Richard R

Oh yes, nearly forgot - check out the Events thread, as it looks like the Big Fat SW Bass Bash is happening later in the year.

Rumble 40 is a nice little practice amp 👍 In annswer to the second part of your post. There are lots of online lessons and what have you, some free some paid. StudyBass.com is one of the best free sites, especially for getting the basics right. That means a proper position so you don't injure yourself and understanding what a bass can do musicaly (other than sound awesome). Scotts Bass Lessons has a lot of free stuff which is good. His style is a bit manic, but what he says is spot on. The subscription works out just under £100 per year, or four face-to-face lessons, and is also structured well. Getting a few face to face lessons is well worth it at the start as well. The one thing that will make more difference than anything else is playing with other people. Hard at the moment, but seriously nothing beats it. Enjoy the ride. I've only been playing a couple of years, work gets in the way of practice, and I can't play with the band as I am the sound engineer. So I am utterly carp compared to where I could be, but still enjoying myself. Rock on with Paranoid!

Welcome aboard. I live in Birmingham, and went to Bournemouth only once in 1988. However I have bought various bits of gear from Absolute Music, and also bought my bass from there two years ago. Sight unseen used, lurking at the dusty back of their website, on a hunch it would be good. It was set up almost perfectly. Amusingly it is still on their website!! https://www.absolutemusic.co.uk/keith-brawley-kb-24-artemis-custom-bass-guitar-with-gigbag-pre-owned.html

Maybe I should review it again at the end of the week, when I have played the whole lot though again? I played Yes yesterday and didn't have a problem with it. 🙂

It would have been under F if the artist was The Four Tops. It's not as good as I hoped, or the reviews said it was. Whoever remastered the recordings for CD was brought up in the 90s with the loudness wars, and squashed the dynamics out of the mixes. Passages that were really quiet on the original are brought up louder and the overall range is reduced. It was a birthday present, and it is great in the car. But I almost cried when I first got it, settled back with headphones on and played one if the discs - it sounded so harsh and brittle. 🙁

By coincidence I have arrived at Y in my alphabetical play through my CD collection. This little lot is up next:

I saw the 90125 tour and remember more than anything my chest cavity resonating with the bass as closed the show with Wurm and the light gantries folded down around the band. Great gig. The problem with YesSongs is the bloody awful production, it sounds like it was recorded from a phone box outside the venue. The fact that everyone still loves it just shows how good the performances are!

Looks very sharp!

And you will have a filled, primed, painted, laquered and reliced piece of ½" plywood about the size of your hand. Which is nice.

I love that sort of structured challenge to listening. I am still working my way though the CD collection alphabetically, and am about to hit Yes. I don't think I have enough range of artists to do your challenge 🤔

Tie Acquisition Syndrome surely? Of course you then have to buy the shirts as well, because you need the correct collars to go with that sort of tie.

Of course we do!

Dead impressive BTW!

Did you make it on a bench?

They obviously think you're more than competent. So come on then- how did it go?? Did you enjoy it, did you and the drummer lock in? Have you come over to the dark side? Don't be a stranger 🙃 Welcome aboard

If ever there was a case that musicians should be heard but not seen, that is it! Fantastic song, great performance, but Neil Young's constipation and Stephen Stills' tie - aaarrrghh!!

I think just the finished items. We can pull back the green curtain on other threads, but this should just be artistically finished items, which were created on a bench.

I am impressed. Especially since I cut the top rail of a home made compost bin ½" short less than an hour ago!

I missed the significance of this sentence the first time round! In order to build your acoustic guitars, you took a piece of MDF and made a spherical dish in it with a 25 foot radius. That is emphatically the most specialist bit of tooling to appear on BC How did you make it? What are the tolerances? How long did it take? How often is it used? Where do you keep it???

Budgie! There's a blast from the past!

I was asked to put together "a slide or something" to illustrate what went on behind the scenes to produce an online service. He wanted a slide to talk over, this is what we gave him instead. It wasn't quite what he expected, but amused us and the congregation. https://youtu.be/a37IJoBWAk4?t=883 Hopefully this will start at the correct time, if not then it's at 14:43 (or here https://youtu.be/a37IJoBWAk4?t=777 if you want the minister's preamble as well)

A friend lent me his Sinsonido 2½ years ago when I first mentioned I had always wanted to play bass. The action was like the Menai bridge and the electronics were shot and I got them repaired. But it was silent, went on holiday easily, and I could practice without annoying the wife. The start of a journey 😀. Worth investigating if you do want a travel bass, but they are very, very, bright!

'Tis a thing of beauty! And, as often happens of this forum, I find I have been on a journey from ignorance that something even exists, through quizzical puzzling about how it works, through amazement that someone is making one, to deciding I will really really need one! Hats off again, and thank you for a most interesting build diary! 😀

ScrewDup precision bass? (No reflection on your build quality)

There ought to be a good name which is also mechanical engineering play on the term "precision" bass. The best I can think of at the moment would be something like Submicron precision bass. Or if I were building it WideTolerance precision bass.